The physical changes during and around puberty can cause stressful and unpleasant emotions for children who don’t identify with the gender they were assigned at birth. Puberty blockers, or pubertal blockers, temporarily suppress puberty. They might be given to transgender or gender-diverse children...
Doctors can decide if children are able to consent to puberty blockers, say judgesIt is for doctors to decide whether a child under 16 can give informed consent to treatment with puberty blockers, the Court of Appeal has ruled.1Clare Dyer...
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It is for doctors to decide whether a child under 16 can give informed consent to treatment with puberty blockers, the Court of Appeal has ruled.1 Three senior judges, headed by the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Burnett, overturned a High Court decision which cast doubt on under 16s' ability ...
doi:10.1136/bmj.m4699Clare DyerThe BMJ
The case has raised questions about the effects so-calledpubertyblockers have on adolescents, whether the drugs are safe and whether their effects are reversible. The difficulty in answering these questions is that the evidence for the use of these drugs on adolescents with gender incongruence is ...